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Drawing Contest!
Three students from Cape Cod Community College, Margaret, Adrienne, and Aubrey, have taken on a unique community service project to help the National Marine Life Center. They are developing a place mat for local restaurants that will promote awareness of NMLC and our mission! They initiated a drawing contest to gather artwork for the placemat, […]
The Last Wall
If you’ve driven by our new marine animal hospital in the last several months, you may have noticed the exterior isn’t quite finished. We’d left an opening in the side so that heavy equipment could get in and out. Now that we’ve installed the sprinklers and placed the last turtle tank, we no longer need […]
The Inside Scoop
To investigate what is really going on inside we took Patty to WHOI for another CAT scan, so what did the ‘cat’ have to say about the turtle ? There is a new shell forming under the pink tissue we call the pseudo-shell, this is good news but at this point the new shell is […]
Service Spring Break, part 1
National Marine Life Center Journal Entries Frank Reske, III Day 1: March 9, 2010, 9 am – 11 am Today I went to the National Marine Life Center for my interview for my summer internship. While I was there, I watched them do a check up on a turtle they call Patty. She is a […]
National Marine Life Center is seeking four summer interns to help with education!
The National Marine Life Center is seeking four summer interns to help with education. Applications including cover letter, resume and one letter of reference are due March 31, 2010 at 5pm. Applications can be emailed, faxed or dropped off. Click here for pdf internship announcement We had two wonderful interns for the summer of 2009. […]
Thanks Tobey Hospital !
The Animal Care staff is very grateful to the generous donation of a Narkomed anesthesia unit from Tobey Hospital and particularly for the help from Robert Casmira to coordinate this effort. This fully functional unit, while no longer the state-of-the-art for human anesthesia, is more advanced then the vast majority of veterinary units and has […]
Shell Game
Patty continues to loose aspects of her top shell, called the carapace, secondary to the damage caused by the exposure to freezing temperatures almost a year ago. The delayed tissue lost is a consequence of micro-vascular damage and a lost of blood flow to the shell (avascular necrosis) which resulted in bone death. Patty is […]
Junior Tech Workshops Engage, Excite, and (dare we say it?) Educate
This February Vacation Week, we welcomed nine students from throughout Barnstable and Plymouth counties to participate in “Turtle T.L.C. & Seal S.O.S.” Created with Jr. TECH, a program of the Cape Cod Technology Council, the workshop aims to promote “STEM” skills while teaching kids about marine animal rehabililitation. STEM stands for “Science, Technology, Engineering, and […]
February Vacation Week at NMLC
This February Vacation week at the National Marine Life Center, there is something for everyone! Weekdays at 11 am, we offer an update about our patients and the opportunity to visit our headstarting diamondback terrapin hatchlings and red bellied cooter hatchlings. Free, suitable for all ages. Weekdays at 2 pm, we offer “Fins and Flippers” […]
A Joyful Valentine’s Day
Catching Joy enjoyed visiting the Boston College Children’s Center in Chestnut Hill today to promote the National Marine Life Center’s mission to care and protect the marine wildlife. The kids listened to stories about saving turtles and made valentines for the ocean animals. The kids were very interested and cared about the animals and had […]
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Mondays are better when you're in the pool! Cherry Garcia continues to do well. He is still undergoing treatment for the abscesses in his rear
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It's time for #sealSunday! 🦭
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It’s been a while since we last checked in with open fracture case, Banana Split, so here’s where we are at: Banana Split has progressed